Skirt-supporter.



No. 843,782. PATENTED r2312, 1907.

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SKIRT SUPPORTBR. APPLICATION FILED JULY Z, 190B.

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UNITED STATES PATENT @FFIUIQ. WILLIAM R. WHITE, or NOGAL, TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO.

.SKIRT-SUPPORTER- Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 2,1906. $erial No. 324,4:4A-

8L3,782. Patented Feb. 12, 1907.

To all 11/71/0111 it may concern: cured at the front by a suitable buckle com- Be it known that I, WILLIAM R. IVHITE, i posed of parts attached to the ends of said citizen of the United States, residing at Nol belt. In like manner the outer belt willhave gal, in the county of Lincoln and Territory of a buckle to secure its ends at the front, and New Mexico, have invented certain new and this, buckle may be of any ornamental type useful Improvements in Skirt-Supporters, of desired or otherwise. which the following is a specification. i In the actual use of the invention the inner This invention consists of novel means for belt 3 is secured about the Waist of the wearer supporting skirts of ladies or misses and atbeneath the dress-waist. WVhen the skirt has taching the same to the waist in such a way been adjusted properly, the outerbelt is next as to obviate likelihood of the skirt-band bei placed in position and extends about the ing pulled downwardly or disconnected from i waistband of the skirt, so that when it is the waist in any way. buckled the projections 7 on the plate 5 force For a full understanding of the invention the waist material, as well as the skirt-band and the merits thereof and also to acquire a material, slightly outward through the slots 8 knowledge of the details of construction of l in the plate 6 of the outer belt 4. An interthe means for effecting the result reference locking connection is thus virtually estabis to be had to the following description and lished between the belts 3 and 4, and the maaccompanying drawings, in whichterial from which the skirt-band and waist is Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the made is very firmly connected with the belt invention applied. Fig. 2 is a horizontal parts in an evident manner. sectional view. Fig. 3 is a detail view of the The manner of applying the plates 5 and 6 cooperating plates which are attached to the to the belts, to which they are attached, is exbelts. Fig. at is a vertical sectional view tremely advantageous by reason of the fact through the parts com rising the invention. that said lates are housed or inclosed by the Corresponding and ike parts are referred fabric or ike material from which the belts to in the following description and indicated are made. The plates 5 and 6, and especially in all the views of the drawings by the same the plate 5, are not likely to rust and soil reference characters. those portions of the wearing-apparel with Specifically describing the invention, the which they come into contact. Furthermore, numeral 1 designates the waist worn by the the inclosing of the plates in the belt parts person using the supporter, and the numeral prevents the projections 7 from likelihood of 2 the skirt art. The supporter consists of tearing the material with which they engage. the inner be t 3 and the outer belt 4, as above Having thus described the invention, what specified, and these belts are preferably comis claimed as new isposed of double-ply material and may be A skirt supporter comprising inner and made of cloth, leather, or the like. The rear outer belts, each belt consisting of double-ply portions of each of the belts 3 and 4 are rematerial, areinforcing-plate receivedbetween inforced by means of plates 5 and 6, respec tively. Each of the plates 5 and 6 is recelved between the plies of material comprising the belt to which it is secured, and the plate 5 is formed with projections 7, extending from its outer side and adapted to extend into or through slots 8, formed in the plate 6, applied to the outer belt.

The plates 5 and 6 may be of any suitable belt being provided with slots or openings in its length, while the plate of the inner belt is formed with projections-in itslength adapted to enter the slots or openings in the plate of the outer belt.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM R. WHITE. [L. s.]

length and preferably extend about from hip Witnesses: to hip and across the back of the body of the M. M. DUKE, wearer. The inner belt will of course be se- J. E. KOONOE.

the plies of each belt, the plate of the outer 

